NEW DELHI: In an order that will set precedence for loan defaulters, the honorary judge of the Karkardoma court, Delhi, has issued a rigorous imprisonment of one year to Mr Raju, resident of 28/17 Trilok Puri, under section 138 of the Negotiable Instrument Act. Raju had taken a loan of Rs 25,000 from Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd. On the installments not being paid and bouncing off the post-dated cheques given by the customer, the...

HYDERABAD: Repeated violators of provisions with regard to clinical trials under the new Drug and Cosmetics (Amendment) Bill, 2015 will attract imprisonment up to five years, if it comes into effect. The draft guidelines of the proposed new Bill released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, proposes to insert a separate chapter on clinical trial, Chapter 4A in it. The Bill is expected to be placed before the Parliament for its approval during the Budget...

CHENNAI: In an extraordinary action, the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Friday ordered the arrests of six senior journalists, including two top editors of the 125-year-old daily The Hindu on a charge of breach of privilege and "gross contempt" of the House through an editorial in April this year and awarded them 15 days simple imprisonment. After a resolution sentencing them was adopted in the House, Speaker K Kalimuthu issued arrest warrants against editor N Ravi, executive editor Malini...

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has sentenced Chairman of Hoffland Finance B B Sharma to one year simple imprisionment in a cheque bouncing case. Convicting Sharma under Negotiable Instrument Act for dishonour of cheque issued by his company to an investor, Additional Sessions Judge C K Chaturvedi said, "I have carefully gone through the evidence on record. There being no defence shown by the accused, the offence is fully proved by the complainant. " Stating that since Sharma is in...

MUMBAI: Broker Hiten Dalal and Canara Bank Mutual Fund's former General Manager B R Acharya have been sentence to one year imprisonment and directed to pay Rs three crore compensation in a 1992 securities scam case by the Bombay High Court . Justice Roshan Dalvi, presiding over a special court, held the duo guilty yesterday and observed that the case pertains to economic offence and causing pecuniary loss to public exchequer. However, the judge acquitted five...

By Anjali Ojha NEW DELHI: The jailing of the charismatic J Jayalalithaa will help the BJP to grow in Tamil Nadu, a state where it has always been a bit player, party leaders say. Bharatiya Janata Party leaders feel their party is bound to get more support now that the ruling AIADMK is rudderless minus Jayalalithaa and the DMK - the main opposition - is in disarray. As for the Congress, it appears to be on the retreat in Tamil Nadu, where it...

BOSTON: An Indian-American CEO of an IT company has been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment and ordered to pay over USD 800,000 in restitution for his role in a bribery and kickback scheme. Sushil Bansal , 43, President and CEO of Advanced Integrated Technology Corporation , will also serve a three-year period of supervised release following release from his two concurrent 20-month imprisonment terms. In addition to the prison sentence, Bansal...

MUMBAI: Shares of Uflex were under pressure after reports that the CBI Special Court has sentenced Ashok Chaturvedi to 4-year imprisonment in Noida land scam . The stock plunged 20 per cent to Rs 195.50 on the NSE. It touched a low of Rs 195.50 in trade so far on volume of 47.96 lakh shares.

RANCHI: A special CBI court today sentenced disqualified JD(U) MP Jagdish Sharma to four years rigorous imprisonment in a fodder scam case. Judge Sitaram Prasad also slapped a fine of Rs four lakh on Sharma, who along with former Bihar Chief Ministers Lalu Yadav and Jagannath Mishra was convicted in another fodder scam case last year. The court had on Wednesday last found Sharma and 18 others guilty in the RC...

BHOPAL: BJP MLA Asharani and her husband and former MLA Ashok Veer Vikram Singh , alias Bhaiya Raja , along with four others were sentenced to ten years rigorous imprisonment by a local court for abetting their domestic help's suicide. The maid Tijjibai committed suicide by setting herself afire on May 21, 2007, at Bhaiya Raja's Kolar Road residence here, prosecution sources said. The former MLA exploited her physically while his...

There has been a gradual and structural shift in stance taken by courts. Indian courts, like western courts, now recognise criminal liability of a corporate. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently referred about trying corporates indulging in criminal activities. A company has a distinct legal personality. It can sue or be sued, can own and sell assets, or commit an offence that is of civil or criminal in nature. The old school of thought was that the corporate acts through its...

NEW DELHI: Intelligent speed adaptation, driver alert control and eye drowsiness detectors are some of the features proposed in new Motor Bill that seeks to prevent at least 2 lakh road accident deaths in next five years through hefty penalties and jail-terms. The Narendra Modi government has unveiled an ambitious 'vision' for reducing road fatalities by 20 per cent annually as part of the draft Road Transport & Safety Bill 2014, concerned over an alarming 1.38 lakh road...

NEW DELHI: Seeking to come down heavily on traffic offenders, government today proposed steep penalties of up to Rs 3 lakh along with a minimum 7-year imprisonment for death of a child in certain circumstances, besides huge fines for driving violations. The new Road Safety and Transport Bill 2014 also proposes a fine of Rs 5 lakh per vehicle as well as imprisonment for faulty manufacturing design, besides cancellation of licences ...

UJJAIN: Former Congress MP Prem Chand Guddu was today sentenced to six months imprisonment by a local court for preventing a police officer from discharging her duty at a temple here in 2004. However, he was later granted bail. Guddu had misbehaved with woman sub-inspector Vimla Yadav in the Mahakelshwar temple premises in 2004 following which a case was registered against him. The six-month sentence was awarded by First Class...

NEW DELHI: Keeping aside political differences, the NDA government has decided to maintain the UPA regime's stand in the Supreme Court and oppose on Tuesday Jayalalithaa government's February 19 decision to release seven life imprisonment convicts in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case by remitting their remaining jail term. Of the seven, three — Murugan, Santhan and Perarivalan — were awarded death sentence in 2001. The SC had commuted their capital punishment to...

ALLAHABAD: The Congress nominee for Allahabad Lok Sabha seat Nand Gopal Gupta 'Nandi' was imprisoned for a short duration and fined for violating Model Code of Conduct in local body elections in 2012. Nandi, known for his publicity blitz since the days when he was with the BSP leader and a minister in the previous Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, is also named in an FIR filed earlier this week for leading a procession after his...

HYDERABAD: Repeated violators of provisions with regard to clinical trials under the new Drug and Cosmetics (Amendment) Bill, 2015 will attract imprisonment up to five years, if it comes into effect. The draft guidelines of the proposed new Bill released by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, proposes to insert a separate chapter on clinical trial, Chapter 4A in it. The Bill is expected to be placed before the Parliament for its approval during the Budget...

NEW DELHI: Any person who inflicts injury that causes death of a victim in a sexual assault or leaves her in a persistent vegetative state shall face punishment up to death under the ordinance promulgated to tighten anti-rape laws. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Ordinance, 2013, promulgated by President Pranab Mukherjee, also enhances punishment for sexual assault by a man on his wife during separation and such a crime will lead up to seven years of imprisonment. "Whoever commits an...

NEW DELHI: Ketan Parekh, an accused in several cases of stock market manipulation, has been convicted by a special CBI court in Mumbai for cheating and sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment. "The Special Judge for CBI cases, Mumbai has convicted Ketan Manharlal Parekh, share broker and sentenced him to undergo two years rigorous imprisonment with total fine of Rs 50,000," CBI spokesperson said here today. The court, however, acquitted a bank...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme court today expressed concern over milk adulteration in the country and sought response from all the states on providing harsher punishment of life imprisonment to people indulging in production and marketing of spurious milk. A bench headed by Justice K S Radhakrishnan said that the issue is very "serious" and asked the governments to take immediate steps to control the menace of milk adulteration. It sought detailed affidavits...